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Stéphane Ortelli (born 30 March 1970) is a Monégasque professional racing driver with three world championship titles. He has won the

24 Hours of Le Mans The 24 Hours of Le Mans () is an endurance-focused Sports car racing, sports car race held annually near the city of Le Mans, France. It is widely considered to be one of the world's most prestigious races, and is one of the races—along with ...

race in with

Allan McNish Allan McNish (born 29 December 1969) is a British former racing driver, commentator, and journalist from Scotland. He is a three-time winner of the 24 Hours of Le Mans, most recently in 2013 24 Hours of Le Mans, 2013, as well as a three-time wi ...

and Laurent Aïello and the

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2003 2003 was designated by the United Nations as the International Year of Fresh water, Freshwater. In 2003, a Multi-National Force – Iraq, United States-led coalition 2003 invasion of Iraq, invaded Iraq, starting the Iraq War. Demographic ...

with

Romain Dumas Romain Dumas (born 14 December 1977) is a French racing driver and driver for Glickenhaus in the World Endurance Championship. He first started out in karting and single-seater before becoming an expert driver in endurance racing, GT and sport-p ...

and

Marc Lieb Marc Lieb (born 4 July 1980) is a former German Porsche factory motor racing driver. He won the FIA GT Championship in 2003 and 2005, and the European Le Mans Series in 2005, 2006, 2009 and 2010. He won the 24 Hours Nürburgring four times, an ...

. He's also won the GT1 Class at the

12 Hours of Sebring The 12 Hours of Sebring is an annual motorsport Endurance racing (motorsport), endurance race for Sports car racing, sports cars held at Sebring International Raceway, on the site of the former Hendricks Army Airfield World War II air base in S ...

2005 2005 was designated as the International Year for Sport and Physical Education and the International Year of Microcredit. The beginning of 2005 also marked the end of the International Decade of the World's Indigenous Peoples, Internationa ...

with

David Brabham David Philip Brabham (born 5 September 1965) is an Australian racing driver and one of the most successful and experienced specialists in sports car racing. He has won three international Sports Car series and is one of four Australians to have ...

and

Darren Turner Darren Turner (born 13 April 1974) is a British racing driver and owner of Base Performance Simulators. He races for Aston Martin Racing as a Factory-backed, factory driver and also works as a high performance test driver for Aston Martin. He w ...

. Currently, he is an

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driver competing and developing the Jaguar and Lexus GT racing cars in the

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and the VLN series.

Career

*1995: Winner of Supertouring Criterium

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Oreca ORECA (Organisation Exploitation Compétition Automobiles) is a French auto racing, racing team and race car constructor, founded in 1973 and run by Hugues de Chaunac, former team manager of F1 team Automobiles Gonfaronnaises Sportives, AGS. Or ...

/ 5 victories *1998: Winner of

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-98 *2002: Winner of

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3 victories & 4 podiums *2002: Winner of FIA GT World Championship N-GT class Porsche 911 GT3-RS / 7 victories & 1 podium *2003: Winner of FIA GT World Championship N-GT class Porsche 911 GT3-RS / 3 victories & 3 podiums *2003: Winner of

Porsche 911 GT3-RS *2004: Winner of Porsche Cup / 5 victories & 7 podiums *2005: Winner of

in GT1 Class with

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Aston Martin DBR9. *2005:

World Touring Car Championship The FIA World Touring Car Championship was an international touring car championship promoted by Eurosport Events and sanctioned by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA). It has had several different incarnations, including a sing ...

with Team Oreca (

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) *2005:

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with Audi PlayStation Team Oreca (

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) / 1 Win *2005:

with Audi PlayStation Team ORECA (

) / 4th Overall *2006: Le Mans Series with Team Oreca (

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R) / 2 Victories *2007: Winner of

with Team Oreca (

R) *2007: FIA GT Championship GT2 class with AF Corse (

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) *2012: Winner of

with Belgian Audi Club Team WRT ( Audi R8 LMS ultra) *2013: Winner of

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/ 2013 FIA GT Series season with Belgian Audi Club Team WRT ( Audi R8 LMS ultra) *2014: 3rd overall of

with

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( Audi R8 LMS ultra) *2015: 3rd overall of

with Belgian Audi Club Team WRT ( Audi R8 LMS ultra) *2015: Winner of the Sepang 12 Hours with Belgian Audi Club Team WRT (

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)

Monza Le Mans Series 2008 crash

On 27 April 2008, during a

race at the

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, a mechanic issue caused his

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car to slide and spin onto the grass. This in turn instigated a cartwheeling motion upon the vehicle, which resulted in most of the car's bodywork and all but one wheel being torn off before it came to rest on the opposite side of the track. It narrowly missed the tail of

's Audi R10 which was in front. Ortelli sustained a broken ankle as a result.

Career results

24 Hours of Le Mans results

Partial Porsche Supercup results

( key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in ''italics'' indicate fastest lap) † — Did not finish the race, but was classified as he completed over 90% of the race distance. ‡ — Not eligible for points.

Complete World Touring Car Championship results

( key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in ''italics'' indicate fastest lap)

FIA GT competition results

Complete GT1 World Championship results

Complete FIA GT Series results

Complete Blancpain GT World Challenge Europe results

( key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in ''italics'' indicate fastest lap)

References

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